Making Hard Candy on a Restored 19th Century Candymaking Machine

Also: Why hard candy is referred to as "drops"

Talk about niche: Lofty Pursuits is a Florida-based store that specializes in making "hard candies using equipment from the Victorian period. Much of our equipment was made between the 1850's and about 1910." When they got their hands on a rusted-out 19th-century machine with interchangeable rollers, they restored it to perfection and demonstrated how it was used: